Open AccessCaring for Patients with Advanced Stage Cancer at the Time of COVID ‐19
Author(s) -
Brunello Antonella,
Zagonel Vittorina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the oncologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.176
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1549-490X
pISSN - 1083-7159
DOI - 10.1634/theoncologist.2020-0230
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , pandemic , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , intensive care medicine , oncology , chemotherapy , disease , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , paleontology , outbreak , biology
This letter to the editor alerts oncologists to the importance of accurately defining benefit‐risk ratio during the COVID‐19 pandemic for patients with advanced‐stage cancer treated with chemotherapy after failure of first‐line and second‐line therapy.